Unlocked AT&T Blackberry Priv not updating to Marshmallow

Hi, I live in Cape Town, South Africa and I have bought one of the unlocked AT&T Blackberry Priv's on EBay. It works fine on our local networks in South Africa, but it is not allowing an OTA update to Marshmallow. Please assist me with some advice on how to correct this?

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Re: Unlocked AT&T Blackberry Priv not updating to Marshmallow

You have to have an active AT&T SIM and must be on the AT&T network - meaning, working in the U.S.

There's no other way around it - besides, AT&T hasn't even release Marshmallow for the Priv yet, so even if you had what you needed, you still won't get it. At least not at the moment.

The only other option you may have, when AT&T does decide to release Marshmallow, is hope that BlackBerry posts the autoloader for it when it does become available. Blackberry does have autoloaders for the various models on their site - including an earlier release of Lollipop for the AT&T Priv, but only up to (I think) the May update.

So there it that possibility. But, you ain't gettin' it now.

Shouldn't have bought an AT&T branded Priv. Being unlocked lets it work on other networks, but the updates, at least OTA updates, are still tied directly to the mobile network.

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VPN wont do a thing. The phone checks with the ATT network that the IMEI is valid then tells the phone its ok to download the update over wifi. But to start the update you have to be IN THE UNITED STATE with A ACTIVE ATT ACCOUNT. There are no ways around this unless BB posts the autoloader.

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What about having service from AT&T Mexico? I haven't been able to get a straight answer, contacted AT&T on Facebook, they had no clue. Their local operation (Formerly Iusacell, Unefon and Nextel) have no idea what I'm talking about.

If I can get the updates by having an AT&T Mexico SIM, I'll switch carriers for sure.

Re: Marshmallow Updated for priv

However, rIght now, there is no way to get any update on an AT&T branded Priv - even though it is unlocked - unless you have an active AT&T SIM and are on the network in the U.S.

Even with that, you'd only get what AT&T lets you have - which, at the moment - is NOT Marshmallow. AT&T hasn't released it yet for the Priv - and there's some rumors that AT&T never will because they are giving up on the Priv and just don't care. Another rumor is that it will be out later in June. So, it is kind of all over the place when you have a carrier that simply won't communicate their intentions with their customers.

But, as the link above indicates, BlackBerry knows the problem of all those extra unlocked AT&T Privs that were dumped on the market recently and sold around the world for under 500 bucks. Certainly wasn't expected, and now BlackBerry has to deal with the fact that they gave in to AT&T's bullying tactics in the first place to put in those extra bootloader locks to prevent just any OS autoloader from being used on the Priv.

Re: Marshmallow Updated for priv

However, rIght now, there is no way to get any update on an AT&T branded Priv - even though it is unlocked - unless you have an active AT&T SIM and are on the network in the U.S.

Even with that, you'd only get what AT&T lets you have - which, at the moment - is NOT Marshmallow. AT&T hasn't released it yet for the Priv - and there's some rumors that AT&T never will because they are giving up on the Priv and just don't care. Another rumor is that it will be out later in June. So, it is kind of all over the place when you have a carrier that simply won't communicate their intentions with their customers.

But, as the link above indicates, BlackBerry knows the problem of all those extra unlocked AT&T Privs that were dumped on the market recently and sold around the world for under 500 bucks. Certainly wasn't expected, and now BlackBerry has to deal with the fact that they gave in to AT&T's bullying tactics in the first place to put in those extra bootloader locks to prevent just any OS autoloader from being used on the Priv.

*The views and opinions expressed on this forum are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party.

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